The Football By Gerard Cunningham
Its hard watching them win. Every true Irishman has something in his
genetic makeup that rebels against the thought. Anyone but them.
Anyone but those arrogant *******s.
Its not that we actively hate them. Most of us would be hard pressed to
even dislike them. Truth be told, we quite like them. They are after all
our neighbours, and in recent years, we've even seen them buying houses
in the Irish countryside, living among us.
And lets face it, even before they started moving here, most of us lived
among them. We've all worked there at some point in our lives, though of
course the entire time we dreamed of the day when we'd have enough money
saved to move back home.
Some of us returned with husbands and wives we found there, a few even
married among them and settled there. Your heart goes out to them,
knowing their kids will grow up with *that* accent.
So its not that we dislike them. Most of them are the salt of the Earth,
as decent a collection of human beings as you could hope to find
anywhere on the planet. How can you dislike an ordinary fan, whose only
sin is shouting for his team. Sure don't we do the same ourselves?
But its the arrogance that gets you. Every team goes through good
patches and bad, but the rest of us don't have that same imperial
swagger. Something about it just sticks in the craw. I mean there they
are, still three tough games away from taking the cup home, and already
they're talking like they're unstoppable, when lets face it, they're far
from the best team in the competition.........................
So yes, it was hard watching Dublin beat Laois last Sunday at Croke Park !!!!!!!!:)
